Cinemas - What’s still showing & where - 13/6/08

Jun 13 2008 by Michael Green, Flintshire Chronicle

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (15) (Vue, Cheshire Oaks)RUSSELL Brand is the best thing about this otherwise pale imitation of producer Judd Apatow’s superior Knocked Up. STAR RATING: **

GONE BABY GONE (15) (All major cinemas)DIRECTOR Ben Affleck directs brother Casey to a great performance in a gripping thriller about a child abducted in Boston. STAR RATING: ***

HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY (15) (Vue, Cheshire Oaks)JOHN Cho and Kal Penn reunite for a comedy which recycles every joke from Get The Munchies except this time they get slung behind bars after one of their bongs is mistaken for a bomb. STAR RATING: **

INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (12A) (All major cinemas)THIS superfluous fourth entry is dull, plodding with not a decent character beyond Indy and a story nonsensical to the point where you lose all interest. STAR RATING: *

JUNO (12A) (Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Friday-Monday)WITTY comedy about teenage pregnancy, starring the remarkable Ellen Page as a 16-year-old who decides one day it’s time to try sex and recruits best pal Michael Cera for the purpose and gets pregnant.

STAR RATING: ****

NIM’S ISLAND (U) (All major cinemas)HOME Alone on a desert island seems to be the shorthand description of this family adventure which is based on Wendy Orr’s best-selling novel.

STAR RATING: ***

PROM NIGHT (15) (All major cinemas)BRITTANY Snow is the sole survivor of a killing spree which wiped out her family. The psycho in question chooses Prom Night to finish the job.

STAR RATING: *

THE SAVAGES (15) (Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Tuesday-Wednesday)STUDENTS of fine film acting will relish the prospect of seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney together on screen in the story of a brother and sister having to find care for their difficult ageing father.

STAR RATING: ***

SEX AND THE CITY (15) (All major cinemas)FEMALE audiences – and a few brave men – are basking in the lap of luxury courtesy of the four heroines on the famed TV show who now get to strut their stuff in high heels on the big screen.

STAR RATING: ***

SPEED RACER (PG) (Vue, Cheshire Oaks, weekend matinees)THE Wachowski brothers return to movie-making for the first time since The Matrix Trilogy with an effects-dominated kids film, based on a Japanese Anime influenced cartoon series from the 60s.

STAR RATING: **

SUPERHERO MOVIE (12A) (All major cinemas)THE title gives away the fact this is from the Epic, Date, Scary Movie braindead brigade which are to movies what Jive Bunny was to late 80s pop music. STAR RATING: **

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS… (12A) (All major cinemas)ASHTON Kutcher and Cameron Diaz star in a bad-tempered rom com about a couple down on their luck who decide to have a night of debauchery in Las Vegas, only to wake up next morning married.

STAR RATING: **

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